Saturday, May 26, 2007

A Long Way Gone

Finally finished my re-read of Snow Crash. Phenomenal all the way through.

I’ve now begun reading the next book off the top of my stack: A Long Way Gone. This memoir of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war is just as disturbing, compelling, heartbreaking and full of incomprehensible inhumanity as I’d imagined it would be. And you should read it.Here, the author, Ishmael Beah, reads an excerpt from, coincidentally (serendipitously?), the exact point I’m at in the book.

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Chris (aka Wrath66™) —a graphic designer and writer— is an ex-marketing/advertising creative (that still does the odd bit of brand identity development) turned stay-at-home Daddy to Baby Grrl!™ and husband to the wonderfully wonderful, Hol(ly). Originally from the West Coast (the greater SFO and SEA areas – the two areas where most of his family still lives) Chris has crossed the country and the globe and (for reasons too tedious to recount here) currently resides in STL.

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